Lost was great!
POSTED BY: Litwolf689
UPDATED: Friday, October 1, 2004 15:13
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OK, here's my crazy theory. All of these people (so far) seem to have done something bad in their lives. My guess is that they did not, in fact, survive the plane crash, but are all dead and in hell.
Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.
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Dead? Yes, it would seem so. In Hell? I doubt it. That's too simple. I think they're probably LOST between Heaven and Hell, sort of like Purgatory.
Or the plane never crashed at all - its a secret experiment - they've all been gassed to sleep and now are all hooked up to a virtual reality world.
Or it's all a dream. That would suck even more than my last idea.
Best case scenario: despite the weirdness, they are NOT dead, and this island is eventually, logically, explained.
In any case, the show is so well done that I don't even care if it is all just a dream. I just want to know where the polar bear came from!
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Ehhh... they've all got a story to tell and a secret to keep, but that'll hardly put them all in hell.
Especially not a nine-year old and his faithful mutt. Nor the pregnant lady or the Asian wife, who seem to be (so far) simply prisoners of their situations.
Some sort of purgatory though? Maybe... (EDIT : Blargh - great minds think alike - didn't mean to copy, honest. 
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I just don't think anything would be that simply cut and dry here. We need more details. We need more of the show. 
Radhil Trebors
Persona Under Construction
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Originally posted by Aerrin (about 'Tabula Rasa'):
... I think whether you've heard it or not probably depends on where your interests or areas of study lie.
That supports my point. Most people don't have a focus on the humanities and liberal arts. So even if it's commonly used by them, it's not commonly used by everyone.
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Exactly, I spent ten years in college, mostly in the sciences, and never heard "Tabula Rasa" until Willow said it on Buffy.
EDIT: The thing that has me the most curious now is that message that's been broadcasting for 16 years. No battery in any transmitter could possibly have lasted anywhere near that long (OK, it's possibly hooked up to a solar collector?). But whatever, who recorded it and where's it coming from?
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Originally posted by bikisdad:
The thing that has me the most curious now is that message that's been broadcasting for 16 years. No battery in any transmitter could possibly have lasted anywhere near that long (OK, it's possibly hooked up to a solar collector?). But whatever, who recorded it and where's it coming from?
That is what got me about the episode last night. They estimated the distress message has been playing for 16 years and like 5 months. What is powering the transmitter???? Nothing will last that long except perhaps a solar recharger of some sort. Where did they find something like that on this island?
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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Judging by the wierd Iterator thing in the message, it sounds like it's being sent by a computer. Not like a tape recorder could keep count like that.
A computer would imply some form of advanced supplies somewhere on the island. Some form of generator at the very least - more than likely solar, as you said. Maybe some salvageable things for our Gilligan gang to find.
Who recorded it... I expect we'll find her bones before long...
Radhil Trebors
Persona Under Construction
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My thought on the 16 year transmission was that it was an emergency beacon. Some that I have seen on ebay include both the option of recording a message so you can leave it on repeat and a solar charging system to avoid the issue of dead batteries. Not that hard to explain with off-the-shelf tech.
My wife pointed out that she didn't think the message mentioned any type of wreck...just stuff like please come get me, "it" killed them all. That could lead to the possibility of a secret science operation engineering giant killer mechanical polar bears.
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You folks are mirroring my thoughts as well. A 16 year old transmission with a vocal counter is not stock airplane stuff. I don't even think its "special" airplane stuff. It sounds a lot more like a permanent facility of some kind with a renewable (solar) power supply.
If that's the case, then the desperate woman and her dead friends were probably the staff of that facility on the island... the ones who made the "it" that's killing everyone happen. And brought in mutant polar bears (why?!), and such.
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We don't really know they're polar bears. The bear in question was never shown clearly enough for me to even be positive it's a bear. The only reason to say polar is that it appeared to have white fur, though the muck and grime certainly obscured a lot of it.
BTW, polar bear fur has hollow hair shafts so that it gives more insulation. Every few years a zoo in a warm climate hits the news because mold starts growing in that air space and their polar bears turn green. Seriously; not making this up.
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